I also liked that Madhouse didn't resort to using 3dcg models for the dances. that was always jarring in LL!

Yeah the 3D was awkward at times, but I liked some of it and the 2D animation was always nice. Madhouse is superior as a studio, no doubting that. I'm thinking that may have partially been due to the number of songs(or even number of characters) they had, but they did show a preference for doing it in that style before the anime anyway so maybe that wasn't the case. Hanayamata only ever had one song, and that was the OP. With pretty much the same choreography every time. It was a catchy song(one of my favorite OPs), but I was hoping we'd get something different at some point.

1) The 3D in Love Live never bothered me, but I did prefer the 2D by a mile; actually, the 3D may have served to make the 2D even better in my eyes. Animation plays a very small role in my enjoyment of a show.

2) Unofficial Vote Count

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Killua - 7 votesGinko - 11 votes

I can think of at least 5 guaranteed Killua votes yet to come, and at most 1 guaranteed Ginko vote yet to come. Killua may be behind, but he has an advantage right now.

Killua convinces Ginko to go to the store and buy a certain brand of cigarettes. At the first store Ginko arrived at, they told him the brand is at a different store. The second store Ginko arrived at told him the same thing. Ginko keeps checking store after store and become a wanderer looking endlessly for the brand of cigarettes Killua requested. Killua laughs to himself knowing Ginko will never find it because the store is located on the grounds of his home which can't be accessed without a certain level of strength that Ginko lacks. Killua wins.

Killua convinces Ginko to go the store and buy a certain brand of cigarettes. At the first store Ginko arrived at, they told him the brand is at a different store. The second store Ginko arrived at told him the same thing. Ginko keeps checking store after store and become a wanderer looking endlessly for the brand of cigarette Killua requested. Killua laughs to himself knowing Ginko will never find it because the store is located on the grounds of his home which can't be accessed without a certain level of strength that Ginko lacks. Killua wins.

The engines echo into the night as Alibaba walks out of the dress shop and onto the street once more. The moon shines high above him, gilding the crooked crumbling shanties around him in dull silver.

“Hey kid…….got a light?”

Looming out of the silvery murk as if peeling himself forth from the silvery air itself, a white-haired man approaches Alibaba and waves arm, at the end of which is clutched a small rolled piece of paper. Alibaba looks at the jug carried in the mans’ other arm.

“Depends. Do you have a drink?”

“Kouki is ambrosia for the misshapen ones…..you, too, are a misshapen one, warped by an evil otherworldly. But to share it with you would be blasphemy.”

Saying nothing Alibaba takes out his dagger. Flames dance along the edge. The silver-haired man leans forward, lips to the cigarette, held to the flames writing along the blade. With a flick of his wrist Alibaba sends the head of the man soaring through the air, lit by the arc of his burning cigarette before disappearing into the silvery wash.

Wandering through the thick haze the shanties begin dispersing, becoming transparent, becoming mere shadows etched against the endless silver. Alibaba finds himself on a limitless plain with no horizon and no stars above. The moon drifts downwards, bringing the heavens with it. Smashing into the silvery plain, it turns to liquid and is absorbed, silver-on-silver being the only distinguishing feature of the plain before that too becomes part of monochrome eternity.

A memory like flame, hair like blazing stardust. He reaches out into the nothingness to reach her, but the silver claims her as well, and all around him comes the echoing laughter tinged blue-------

Opening his eyes, his body wreathed in flame, Alibaba finds himself on a wide rune-scarred dias. Before him chants a white-robed wizard in glasses. Alibaba notices the blue-hair and without even the need for thought the flames around him hurl towards the wizard, reducing him to charred cinders. Stomping and scattering the embers, flickering flaming dust clinging to his cheeks and naked body, Alibaba still does not halt his rage at the blue-haired bastard. His undulating howls eventually take the form of the name “Aladdin,” flung towards the dome of silver encasing him. Long after the silver-spell has been broken does Alibaba hurl flame and curses into the night.

As the city burns down around him, Alibaba realizes that the only way to stop the madness of Magi or gods or Men who seek to rule the world………

Killua convinces Ginko to go the store and buy a certain brand of cigarettes. At the first store Ginko arrived at, they told him the brand is at a different store. The second store Ginko arrived at told him the same thing. Ginko keeps checking store after store and become a wanderer looking endlessly for the brand of cigarette Killua requested. Killua laughs to himself knowing Ginko will never find it because the store is located on the grounds of his home which can't be accessed without a certain level of strength that Ginko lacks. Killua wins.

This is interesting. You are not working with the Ginko people.

Or a decoy

Killua is a cool kid and a representative of a show i love. I've never seen Mushishi.